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Quote from: LBSS on April 19, 2013, 10:03:19 am

what are dwight howard raises.

Are you sure you want to know?

No.....


But wild guess it involves shoulders as Howards are rather large. Maybe he lateral raises Dwight himself? For reps?

ankle sprain might need surgery...went jogging. does not compute.

Damn. And I thought my reach was bad at 7'6"!!

looks like I'm going to need a 50 to be able to throw it down.  That aint going to happen unless i replace my calves with rockets.

I don't know why I am giving you adivce but IMO, don't even think about the idea of dunking now. You're so far away you should just keep it from entering your mind to avoid getting discouraged. Just focus on short-term goals like losing some goddamn body fat and having a healthy ankle. Then start on stuff like 2xBW squat, 35'' SVJ, 2.5BW squat, 40'' RVJ, etc.. Might take you years but look at what Kingfish has done by training smart and being dedicated. At least point yourself in the right direction.

I'm at 7'11 with shoes

now see with that kind of reach i'd have dunked long ago. PITY ME DAMN YOU. 

Quote from: Raptor on July 19, 2013, 05:17:05 am

I'm at 7'11 with shoes

now see with that kind of reach i'd have dunked long ago. PITY ME DAMN YOU. 

No you wouldn't have dunked that much!
Unless you have adarq-like lob skills or can grip balls easily, the real world is that you will need to get 9'' above rim to rattle in a soft one hander.
That is 34'' , with the ball in your hands, so you need to be at 35''-36'' without it , give or take.
So since your PR is 35'' and that was a couple of times, you would have thrown down a couple of legit dunks at your best jumping days, but you would be able to throw down at will with smaller balls.

OR i just suck bigtime at dunking and i should have been able to throw down much better at 7'11'' / 33''-35'' that i was pre-injury.

Quote from: LBSS on July 19, 2013, 11:22:26 am

Quote from: Raptor on July 19, 2013, 05:17:05 am

I'm at 7'11 with shoes

now see with that kind of reach i'd have dunked long ago. PITY ME DAMN YOU. 

No you wouldn't have dunked that much!
Unless you have adarq-like lob skills or can grip balls easily, the real world is that you will need to get 9'' above rim to rattle in a soft one hander.
That is 34'' , with the ball in your hands, so you need to be at 35''-36'' without it , give or take.
So since your PR is 35'' and that was a couple of times, you would have thrown down a couple of legit dunks at your best jumping days, but you would be able to throw down at will with smaller balls.

OR i just suck bigtime at dunking and i should have been able to throw down much better at 7'11'' / 33''-35'' that i was pre-injury.

on my best days (like, twice) i was 5-5.5" above the rim. the extra 5" of reach would put me 10-10.5" above rim. dunking. even on my good days, which were more frequent, i was getting 3-3.5" above rim. adding 5" to that would put my whole hand over the rim and a tiny bit of wrist. would not have been able to dunk every time but i could have hit off a great lob, which is good enough for me.